Monday, June 18, 2007

Petit Dej'

My last morning I was very close to Champs Elysees, so I thought why not?Ahem...this was the same morning I had the Hotel Meurice hot chocolate.But that was later on.You get a sense of urgency your last morning in Paris. What I ordered.And how much it cost...You'll be footing the bill next time :) Et voila!For some reason the French think you should drink your O.J. with a straw..?If you know why, please tell me. I wasn't all that keen on the sweetviennoisserie.Everything was covered in sugar except the non-descript dinner roll.The l'addition...pretty as ever.I went upstairs for a quick loo stop... And discovered a much nicer dining room upstairs...Much more posh, if that's possible.On your way out, you might want to pick up a petit four for the road.There's a long bank of pastries to choose from and a long line waiting.More hot chocolate to come,whatever the weather

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Oh, Carol, I need to finally get to Paris! As far as I am concerned, this is the most tempting painting and post ever. I love everything in it, and I mean everything, even the stairs and escpecially the floor, not speaking of the obvious, like the dishes and the croissant (thanks for leaving me a bite!), and and and ... Those chairs and tables, I am ... well, floored, got the Paris bug, whatever you want to call it. Can we exchange apartments for a week????

Thank you, thank you, for sending me ParisBreakfasts every morning!! ( I'm beginning to despise weekends since there's no posting!)It is truly my escape. I am almost as thrilled for you, as I am for myself, when I hear you're going back to Paris to do more research. (I think it's time I go back as well, to do, as I tell my husband, some grocery shopping). I'm off to the kitchen to bake some chouquettes to eat with all of that chocolat chaud I squirrel away.

I went to France for the first itme with my sister, when I was 16, and the thing I remembered the most, from that first day in Paris, was the entrance to the Champs Elysee Laduree there...I can picture it again so vividly, just as I remember it (and that was a LOOOONG time ago, Carol!!) Your painting is beautiful,as always. And your "verbal painting" of it all is entrancing, too.

I noticed something today about your paintings...after looking closely at some of your photos. Do youever paint the lipstick on your cups? Just wondering. I think an occasional lip print would ba a realisticimperfection that exemplifies woman's obsession withbeauty--in herself and her surroundings. I mention itonly because I share your appreciation for the finedetails and presentation in Paris. Maybe the medium(watercolor) doesn't lend itself to such precision...here, I am not very well versed.

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I moved to Paris 2 years ago. I should have done it sooner but that's how the macaron crumbles. Living on the Ile Saint Louis next to the Seine after the 19eme is 'la cerise sur la gâteau'. It doesn't get any better. I've painted watercolors for Bocuse, Champagne Mumm, Guerlain, Frederick Cassel, The Russian Tearoom and the Maharana of Udaipur.
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